By Matthew Waller
SAN ANGELO, Texas Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:07pm EST
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - The taxi driver of any pick up truck involved in a very deadly accident which has a locomotive during a Texas veterans' parade final week has become put beneath the actual attention involving a physician and it is not yet capable to become interviewed through investigators, that driver's attorney at law mentioned on Tuesday.
Four veterans wounded within Iraq or even Afghanistan perished on November 15 whenever a Union Pacific freight locomotive plowed in to the flatbed trailer they will ended up perched on, and also 16 people were injured.
For at first chance upon Tuesday, the driving force of the 18 wheeler pushing the trailer ended up being determined openly because Dale Andrew Hayden, 50, connected with Midland, Texas, a new veteran along with productive military services reservist, their attorney, Doug Fletcher, said.
Hayden is actually "under medical practitioner care," Fletcher said, along with the National Transportation Safety Board could wait for medical clearance in advance of interviewing him. It was not distinct precisely what disease Hayden ended up being suffering.
Hayden's testimony is major that will this analysis simply because government bodies believe the actual seem along with lights warning that your coach has been towards worked properly. Eyewitnesses stated the lock arm followed along about your truck precisely as it had been bridging the railroad tracks.
The NTSB has been re-enacting your accident upon Tuesday to attempt to aid figure out the particular cause.
Union Pacific features held responsible the motive force belonging to the pickup truck to the accident. Fletcher said they ended up being addressing Hayden along with Smith Industries, the driver's employer.
The veterans wiped out inside the collision had been revealed while Marine Chief Warrant Officer Gary Stouffer, 37; Army Sergeant Major Lawrence Boivin, 47; Army Sergeant Major William Lubbers, 43; in addition to Army Sergeant Joshua Michael, 34.
Also on Tuesday, metropolis involving Midland, a new successful essential oil town with West Texas, mentioned that march sponsored from the personal "Show of Support" group, failed to have a permit.
"The City of Midland failed to situation a permit, neither did town be handed a grant job application from the Show connected with Support organization," stated Midland spokesman Ryan Stout.
It appeared to be possibly not immediately clear if your business had sought and received enables within previous years. It had been the 3rd calendar year the march acquired utilised similar route.
(Editing through Greg McCune and Peter Cooney)
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